242 Chapter 242 (1/2)
These beams of energy started pelting the floating device in the middle of the room with their might. The decahedron item that was the main battery started spinning around and the tubes connected to it began absorbing the newfound power.
The captain of the ship sat down in his seat while one of his crew members spoke out.
”Captain, the ship's power is quickly rising, it's going to go over 100% soon!”
”The Patriarch is aiding us, activate all the engines. We will be heading straight towards New Spirit Spring City at full throttle!”
The people on the bridge nodded, the person responsible for activating the ship's bonus thrusters moved a large handle forward. The whole ship shook violently as it jolted forward.
On the outside, the massive Argonaut 1 was surrounded by a blue shield. It started flickering with some lightning and even turned gold due to the new power source. The whole giant ship then shot forward like an arrow.
Zhang Dong wasn't willing to wait here as the word of him slaying Zhan Jie had probably reached everywhere. There were other people watching over this battle which would spread the news faster.
This was a good turn of events as it would give other sects something to think about. The Limitless Sword Society Patriarch was a famed swordsman. This same swordmaster was bested in battle by a relatively unknown master. This validated Zhang Dong's strength even more than the battle he had during the banquet.
The person in question wasn't bothered by the rumors that would be spreading. He just wanted to get his people back to his sect grounds. He couldn't leave this ship unprotected in enemy territory and they did need to go through the lands of other sects. The same three sects that had destroyed the old Dark Palm Sect.
Even with this power up the ship would need some time to return to the borders. Zhang Dong could teleport back home, but unless it was really necessary he needed to power the ship for it to go faster.
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While the giant behemoth was causing widespread panic the life of the new recruits back at the sect continued.
Cheng Yun and Yang Rong were done with getting their basic body refining technique. To their surprise, there wasn't just one technique for everyone. There were multiple ones and supposedly they were picked out by the sect to fit their bodies.
Yang Rong was now sitting in his dorm room with his brother. He thought back to the time that he first entered the brand new library. He still could remember the goosebumps that he got after seeing it.
Yang Rong was slightly scared that he would be unable to pick a good manual for himself. He also didn't know how to spend his merit points, there were just too many options to choose from and he had no one to point him in the right direction. His old brother from the tribe was in a similar situation.
Luckily for the two, the United Element Sect elders had thought about the confusion that the new disciples would have. There was also a limited number of techniques a person should learn. There wasn't time to master it all, it was better to specialize in something than be average at everything.
But how would they know what they should specialize in?
Normal disciples needed an experienced teacher to figure such things out. Unless they were born with a specific obvious talent they would need to go through years of training to just figure something like this out.
In this sect, things were a bit different. At the new library building, the juniors were greeted by another hologram. This one explained to them how they would be able to procure the correct cultivation books.
There were multiple screens spread out at the library's entrance. These screens were the newest addition to the sect's resources and worked akin to computers. They had a limited usage as they were only for picking out books from the database.
The person needed to have their merit emblem scanned by this machine and it would first show them their statics. After they activated this machine they could pick out books for themselves. Some as the free ones they received just needed to be chosen. If there wasn't enough stock the books would be printed out by a printing device.
There was also an option of direct knowledge insertion into the disciples' minds. This type of knowledge transfer required the use of points but could aid people in understanding difficult techniques.
This wasn't the interesting part of this machine. The thing the disciples found astonishing was how it proposed manuals to them based on who they were.
This was all possible thanks to the extensive scanning that was done in the beginning. The sect had a whole database on the disciples. The library software could see what the people were good at and could propose techniques that fit their disposition.
With this, they didn't need to pick out skills at random or ask the teachers to point them in the right direction.
This also saved them from spending their hard-earned merit points on expensive techniques. They could end up getting something that they had no talent for and wasting their time and merits.
Cheng Yun ended up with a Qi condensation manual for people good in the earth element. The library system pointed out that he had 87% proficiency in that element and his second-best one was fire at 67%.
Yang Rong on the other hand was the exact reverse of this tribe member. He had 89% fire element capacity while only having 57% in earth and all the other ones were below 50%. He was now focusing on techniques that mostly belonged to the old Huo Clan.